The Thoughts of Chairman Green

Stephen Green is in a universe of one: the only chairman of a major international bank who is also an ordained minister of the Church of England. He also combines running HSBC, a world-wide institution with more than $2.5 trillion in assets, with extensive reading and a part-time writing career.

In the coming weeks, the 60-year-old Mr. Green is publishing a new book: “Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World.” At a time when bankers are being pilloried for bringing about a global economic meltdown, this is an unusual and thoughtful disquisition on how to conduct oneself in a world of high finance and ambition, in, as he puts it, the global bazaar.

“Finding real peace”, he says, means accepting three uncertainties: that the world is imperfect; that we can’t be sure of human progress; and that hope endures.

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